According to the airline company Azerbaijan Airlines, the first investigations show that “external factors” were to blame for Wednesday’s plane crash in Kazakhstan.
That is written by Reuters.
What this means concretely is not described.
But several media have previously written that Russian anti-aircraft fire hit the plane that crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
An unnamed American official source has indicated the same to the American media CNN.
From here, it is said that it is provisionally indicated that anti-aircraft fire shot down the plane from Azerbaijan Airlines.
If that is indeed the case, it points in the direction that the shooting happened by mistake, says the source to CNN.
The passenger plane with flight number J2-8243 was on its way from Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny in Chechnya when it crashed.
According to Reuters, the plane crash killed at least 38 people.
There were a total of 67 people on board.
Russia’s Civil Aviation Agency believes that Ukrainian drones were in the process of attacking Grozny when the plane crashed.
This is what the head of the aviation agency Dmitry Jadrov writes on the messaging service Telegram, according to Reuters.
He adds that the plane’s pilot was offered to land at other airports.
– He made the decision to fly towards the airport in Aktau, says Jadrov.
A passenger told Reuters that he heard at least one big bang as the plane approached Grozny.
– I thought the plane would fall apart, says the passenger, Subhonkul Rakhimov.
Azerbaijan Airlines has suspended flights to seven Russian cities on Friday – apparently as a result of the plane crash.
Spokesperson for the Russian government, Dmitry Peskov, was asked at a press conference on Friday morning to comment on the reports that Russian anti-aircraft guns must have shot down the passenger plane.
Here, Peskov said that he had nothing to say and would not comment on the case until there is a conclusion on the official investigations into the plane crash.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
